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The closet numerologist and gregarious creature hidden deep within compels me to wish you a happy 7/17/17!

In one of the many numerical quirks of the Universe, if one takes 7-17-17 and decomposes it, the result is three lucky 7s and two decimal-centric 10s. If one then adds the three 7s, to get 21 and then the two 10s to get 20 and then takes the audacious and admittedly somewhat frivolous step of multiplying those two interim results — guess what one gets as the core numerical foundation driving this particular date in history?